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Old 01-21-2018, 14:33   #6
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Just pray they continue to fight each other............
And yet their fighting has only exacerbated unprecedented Muslim migration/invasion to the West. These large migrations were not happening when the Middle East was more stable. You're a treasure trove of knowledge Team Seargent and normally agree with you but not on this. I'll pray for a stable region so they can stop migrating/invading the West. The only actor that benefits from a destabilized Middle East is Isreal.

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Wonder what and if we will do anything. Iraq and Turkey let the Kurd get rid if ISIS and after they did that and were weakened they took them out.
Turkey's been playing a double game this entire time. From the very beggining of the Syrian conflcit, Turkey was hoping ISIS would get rid of the Kurds for them. That changed once Russia invaded Syria in September 2015, that is when and large reason ISIS has dwindled. Next thing you know, Erdogan shoots down a Russian jet two months later in November. The Turks were never truly supporting the "fight" against ISIS, just a dog and pony show. There are Kurdish accounts of the Turkish government supporting ISIS. ISIS was the best thing to happen to Turkey, they had a force to weaken out the Kurds for them. like I said Turkey's #1 foreign policy has always been to prevent a Kurdish state.

Turkey invading Syria was a likely agreement reached between Turkey and Russia. Russia gets a stabilized Syria and Turkey can rid the Kurds further.


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Smart strategy but should we allow it? they have been good allies in the area the only real one other than Israel.
Kurds = U.S. Covert Action tool

To paraphrase Henry Kissinger "Don't confuse Covert Action for missionary work."
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